Category: Sustainability

From the history of fascism and populism to the perversion of America’s self-made man to the ways in which “anxieties of affluence” suppress discussions of income inequality, faculty members confronted a number of pressing social issues in more than 30 ... read more

The 2017-2018 academic year was a prolific 12 months for The New School’s alumni authors, with dozens of books in various genres — nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and children and young adults — hitting the shelves. Among the titles readers couldn’t ... read more

Four years ago, Yin Ling Wu had no idea why she had come to The New School. Nor did she have any idea what to expect. She had originally planned to study business, “to make my parents sacrifice worth it ... read more

At the height of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, the city was using more than 20 million plastic water bottles a day, creating large amounts of plastic waste. Ali Rose VanOverbeke, Fashion Design ’14, who was volunteering with the ... read more

A preeminent multimedia artist. A Pulitzer Prize-winning theater critic. A social entrepreneur who uses tech and design to develop life-changing solutions to real-world problems. Those three individuals — Glenn Ligon, Hilton Als, and Nancy Lublin — are three of the honorary ... read more

As one of the first participants in the NYC Carbon Challenge, The New School pledged in 2014 to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40 percent by 2030. Just four years later, the university is on track to meet ... read more